The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

WMENDIEIi, ! WE WAIT' SUPPER , for you sot. af , er the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail k IN AUAI.VS LL WHISKY v. CDGNAC _BRANDY. /44 cel ebrated Old IRIS II WHISKY rivals the finest hti ell BRANDY, 8 01 Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. - tie "in Bottles, as ,at the Retail Houses in London ;by c lits la the principal towns in England ; or wholesale GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ti tian's LL Whisky." ESTABLISHED 1837. t itI TANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ,oWered by special Act of Parliament 4 Viet., cap. 9. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Ev e kith!): description of Life A ssu^anee business transacted h` lowest rate 4 of Prel ium consistent with security. 411Qvarious Tables, some et whic are peculiar to this Corn nlliave been studiously adapted to the requirements of "aSS of Assurers. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary, V ° LUNTF,ER SERVICE AND GENERAL ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Sill December, 18'4. wti er HEREBY GIVEN . , that an Extraordinary ) 411b al Meeting of the Shareholders of this Association don %VI DNESDAY, the 21st day of December, Nac e "'• at the Office of the Company, No. 8, St. Marlin's ts4Bl,dCharinp,'-cross, London, W.C., at One o'clock p.m., to ki tt t P e . the propriety of amaloAmating with, or transfer business of the Assoc'at onto, one or more company ,k4oPanies formed or to be formed with limited liability, ef Polight expedient, to authorise the Directors to carry eet such amalgAmation and transfer. 11y Order of the Brar,l. JOHN RON. COR3IACK, Secretary. TO LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1836. — ees —l, Dale- treet, Liverpool; 20 and 21, Poultry, 7 , Coruhill, and .56, Charing-cress, London. FiIREVENUE IN 18:3. e Premiums .£5B 1, 0!)0 Lite Premiums 210,010 +llterest on Investments 160,000 £950,000 N , n A a - Teles are est ,blished for effecting bo li Fire and Life ftrf"' of the w nees, and facilitating the payment of Premiums in all a . SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident secretary. ~.14 e nTher, 1864. RE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION (Limited). ""I.l3orated (with Limited Liability) under "The Cora panics Act, 1862." .£50,000, in 5,000 shares of £lO each ; on application and £1 on allotment. !')hert DIRECTORS. tli k „ c Pelf, Esq., F.R.5.1., 15, York-street, Portman-square. ('l l ,''es Kingsford, Esq., Belmont House, Lewisham. t4,,,,'es Morris Esq., 45, South-street, Grosvenor-squire. at" l Reynolds Esq., Allhallows Chambers, Lombard tlteet. ' I °llo W. 11. C. Wellesley, 10, Wilton-street, Belgrave iloilllare. °Co. Witt, Esq., 3, King's Bench-walk, Temple. BANKERS. Messrs. Dimadale, Drewett, Fowler, and Barnard. SOLICITORS. Mes.rs. Bevan and Whiting. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) R. H. Patterson, Esq. Offices (temporary)-6, Old Jewry, E.C. hThe Object of ngland, the this AssociatContinention is to furnishand the press and 141 labile of E the tqt,ct,ern world with a fuller and more regular t•upply of ' r aPhic intelligence than the present system provi,es. kedli h cations for shares to be made at the b , nkera or to the 4 ewi 641 7, or at the temporary offices of the Company, 6, Old Y, London, E.C. 1 1 RE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION. T1 (1 -TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SUBSCR IP - Ter,', LIST will be CLOSED on the 15 th inst. , a t Twelve hey; for London, and on the following day for the Count r y abroad. R. H. PATTERSON, Secretary. eTO -NIGHT at 8, and Daily at 3 and 8. °MIVIODORE NUTT and MINNIE I,h WARREN. +lphe Celebrated COMMODORE NUTT, the Smallest Man !lea: Twenty Years of Age, Twenty - nine Inches high and Iktsr ng but Twenty-four Pounds, having concluded his Lee,,; o3 three years' engagement in America, for which he it",P:l from Mr. P. T. BARNUM the munificent sum of 1 4 1 4 ,1`Y THOUSAND DOLLARS, has the honour to in s Public of London that he will make his FIRST 1 14 1 , - , ,ARANCE in the OLD WORLD at S I'. JAMES'S derj Piccadilly, TO - NIGHT, assisted by the Won- TV Miss MINNIE WARREN, sister of Mrs. GENERAL ~ P OITHUMB, the Smalle-t Lady of her ri , ze in the 84h+ Weighing Eighteen Years old, Twenty - four Inches 4141 , ,Weighing Nineteen Pounds only — a BACHELOR and *e g .i,"' i E of mature age. and more than usual intelligence. and together, less than an ordinary child of three Jil B -- Nature's smallest edition of her choicest , works. Th is Elfin couple will give TWO LEVEES , DAILY at %'e and Eight p.m., in a most interesting MELANGE of iele, Dances, Duets, &c., including Commodore NUTT'S 114,brated personations. THE DRUMMER BOY, SAILOR, „t111,,,,R1CK o'FOGERTY, THE CURE, DRUNKARD, t r $VP SPEAKER (with ten changes of costume), JIM. si," (in the character of a Crow% ad hi wonderful feats &c. tto ,and s Miss MINNIE tti',,K_REN in her Songs, Dittoes, and Duets, appearing in he r '-‘,,r;E DIFFEREN COSTUMES at each Levee, from and magnificent wardrobe. V i lere will De a CHANGE of PROGRAMME at each N o. thThe magnificent MINATURE COACH drawn by Four of (47„grnallest PONIES in the world, the whole a present from t o geral Tom Thumb to Commodore Nutt, attended by Elfin t ac hMan and Footman in Livery, will convey these LE WONDERS tetwecn their HOTEL and ST. Jn ~ I RS'S lIALL. te ll hnik Won,and 3s. To be obtained at the Hall. A reserved stalls, ss. each. children under 10 half price to the 25., 35., and Is. places.: r‘ ORM REPRESENTATION of the WIZARD of the NORTH —TO-NIGHT, at Eight-98th Repre the Von of the WORLD of MAGI(,. Miss ANDERSON, lit i . e cond-sighted Sybil.—Prices, ls., 25., and 3s. To be 40 1) ecl at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly. The Great :44:Ying Mystery and Cabinet Seances. by Miss Lizzie V ti .„ !ton and Mr. Sutton, will terminate the Programme z;vening and Saturday Afternoon. )lIROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. 4,,, JOHN PARRY, will appear in THE RIVAL COM- IoiI"AS (for a limited number of representations). To be )4 r .°Nved by THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY. (Mr. and Ilaa' (I ,,ERMAN REED). Shakespearian Visions of Rosa -4 k T ,','v itch, Touchstone, and Ariel, illustrated by Mrs. Ger % ." ( ,eed. Cone uding with MR3. ROSELEA}' AT THE V,:e'IDE, by Mr. JOHN PARRY. tiehrß Evening (except Saturday) at 8. A Morning Ilepre litlciation every Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Unreserved seats, ls. 4 ee n k ; stalls 3s. • stall spring chair& ss. Stalls may be ~ l 'ed in advance ,' without fee, at the Gallery, LIE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. Th e Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). OR, Co„,-, , 11EE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera Ni'o ll e), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the , 11(0 "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and tql ) irited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, 1)1,,,k- horns ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva, h, )* a, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; ar d final Minuet hen alnp, principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz kit?, Barrielles Tyrrell, and Walmsley ; Messrs. Greene and Fitz kit?, " raud • Revival of NORMA (Norma, Miss Russell' ; Adel- A' Maria); and Selections from MARTHA and (0 A t 4 RAVIN II TA ; together with Locke's celebrated Music 4 ACBET. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. t gE a DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. Talli)tt. AONSTRE CHARME, by M. SILVESTRI& - e VAUBANS in their famous Character Sketches. 116, 111 edy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON RAY, LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of I "I ' petrut nen tal Solos, a c., &c. DC, e.. i I_sos. 6siond.—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private ANTERBURY HALL / 1 The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). No:„ItPUME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL 4 0 ; , 1 in wWch the whole resources of the establishment are T he into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. Ce usual Operatic Selections, the Anthropophaginian, ttc. edy by Mr. W. Randal', T. Stacey, W. lton, and the Ar"cirous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and -441 0 Mustrations of Negro character by LITTLE 808. Admission—Area, ed.; Stalls and Balcony, is. kOYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus'. Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. - , CIAL ATTRACTIONS UP TO CHRISTMAS. , t peratic S e l ec ti c ns, &c. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. IP A C Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE NELLY POWER, J. G. , WEST, GEO. is ak i ruLTßNE, Mr. HERBERT, J. FORDE F. ALEXANDER and A 1; LES FRERES CAVALLINI, the great Italian 1 41" 18 and Gymnasts from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, t ,f first appearance in ' England. silnanent prices —Area, 4d. ; balcony, Gd. ; stalls, Is. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. Gill , : VILLE. IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Np,,,,established 29 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. 11 ,1 1 1 ',vv ADDITION.—A Full-lew..th PORTRAIT MODEL „tIt„'LLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast 9 iti,,,by Doctor Donovan, Shoo of the Phrenologic )1 cl, ill. now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. A dmittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence. 4 . I GYLL ROOMS, Great windmill-street, , Piccadilly. "le -- "Y, the celebrated Paganini Cornet, will play during AlL'vetif Guards' Waltz, Wapping Old Stairs, sa , ly in our Paust, and other novelties. Lug! Curti. Chef a d'Or "ttoi. has arranged for this occasion selections from Tro e, Martha, Huguenots, with a series of new dance music. Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET. T . ESKF J LI'S PATENT,—The I t Nteii -3 celusive right to this Patent wa.s secured to Mr. l e hty , s , of Grosvenor -street, Grosvenor-square, by her Ma -4,'oYal Seal (July 17, 1880), and can only be procured at t q l ,tion,nce, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor- D 'afi t be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, 41 4 0,.a lifetime are made, and fitted in a few hours without Pad e ; Q xtractions. They support loose teeth, and protect 4 t 'etlt il i I na I their resemblance to nature is perfect and un and they are guaranteed for mastication and sTfrreeea.tise on the subject sent for seven stamps, OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 411 if 16 ' Rakell dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing l'lll6-lel4l te eth: and constructing them that they last their 4 WRe a lifetime so . . The process has been patented, 4,lBtotnises to be . most valuable."—Court Journal, August lentnovelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth Kura an ect by ' a patented principle, which secures the most ,Deara4 Combined with the greatest ease and agreeable b ee nee."- 111 orning Advertiser. August 9, 180. aYed teeth stopped, &c. Terrad itriotly moderate. . "I " Y envr-otreet, Bvad-street. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, ls.; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 50 stamps. Bloom of Roses, 313. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 248, High Holborn, London. PRIZE ME D A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER dr CO., Wax Chandlers, dro., AM. To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1730.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Churoh Candles, in 1862, testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with 'tatted Wicks, patented.. Is. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality •• .• Is. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality •• •• •• •• Is. sd. per lb Second quality •• •• • • Is. 3d. per lb. Third quality .. .• .• Is. Id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING RENlEDY.—Pre )ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Gent, will be found invaluable to all who ,uffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dio. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera 'ion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, Ring William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Saott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green paokage. with " William Lambert" engrAvea Ou the 4111API N°. 22,611. NEW NOVEL BY THE REV. J. M. BELLEW Now ready. at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BLouNT TEMPEST. By the Rev. J. M. BELLEW. Hurst and Blachett, Publishers, 13, Brent Marlborough sir, et. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., N 0 T P It 0 V EN. "The object of this book—an object which is very successfully attained—is to portray with vii.our and pathos the trials of a young girl who is perfect y innocent in truth, but is thrown on the world by a verdict of 'Not Proven.' The character of Rosetta Pierce is drawn with a powerful hand and with considerable judgment."—Athenwum, - Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This Day, at all Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo., B E L F 0 R E S T. A NOVEL. By the Author of " The Ladies of Bever Hollow " and " Meadowleigh." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Now ready, in 2 vds. Bvo., price 325., (21EvA AND MODERN. M EX ICO : By ANCIENTmci,E Member of the Institute and Senator of France. " We wish to express our high sense of the conscientious industry it displays, the philosophic views it contains, and the tone of philanthropy whioh pervades it."—The Times, Dec. 8, 18G1. -- • John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. NE W WORK, EDITED BY LIEUT. WARNEFORD, R.N. This Day, price 21., Never before Printed, SK ED ADD L London : George Vickers, Angel-court, Strand. Just publish( BEAUTI A Talc of Love, Intrigue, d, price 25., FUL DEMON. Treachery, and Revenge. above, price 2s. each, LADY DETECTIVE. ANNIE. KATE HAMILTON. I LEFT II ER HOME. FANNY WHITE. A YOUNG SCAM!'. Angel-court, Strand. • Also, uniform with the INCOGNITA. SKITTLES. ANONI MA. Xerf•TES WILLOUGHBY. VieiikN OF LONDON,2B. 6d. LOVE FROLICS OF . London: George Vickers, CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Price Is. each, never beforeprinted. IDHANTOM CRUISER. Edited by LieIIt.WARNEFORD, RN. MISSES AND MATRIMONY. By Captain KNOLLYS. SPELL-BOUND. By M. A. Brun. *.. All who desire a merry Christmas will buy tiles! books, John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVELS-AT ALL LIBRARIES. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, By the Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. Fifth Edition. 3 vols., price 31s. 6d. THE BEE4IUNTERS. By GUSTAVE AICARD. THE MAN IN CHAINS. By C. J. COLLINS. HENRY DUNBAR. By Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. SINGED MOTHS. By Author of SAcRVILLE CIIASE. THE JOLLY BOAT. By Lieut. WARNEFORD, R.N. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVELS—AT ALL LIBRARIES, BROKEN 10 HARNESS. By EDMUND YATES. 3 vols., price 31s. ed. GASPAR 'TRENCH tRD. By BRACEBRIDGE lIEMYNG. ASKERDALE PAR EC By a CLERGYMAN. 2 vols. MAGGIE BELL. B , WARWICK HOLME. 2 vols. MARTIN TOBIN. Jty LADY CAMPBELL. 3 vols. DANGEROUS COSI +EXIONS. 3 vols. John Maxwell an,l Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. SECOND ANNUAL PUBLICATION. This day is published, price 108. 6d , THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK. A Statistcal, Genealogical, and Historical Account of the States and Sovereigns of the Civilised World FOR TIIE YEAR 1865. By FREDERICK MARTIN. Macmillan and Co., London and Cambridge. This day, demy Bvo., One Shilling, O _ UR INTERESTS IN CHINA. Reasons for the dissolution of the Naval Force under Captain Osborn, C. 8., with general remarks on our Foley in China. By HORATIO N. LAY, C. 8., Late Inspeetcr-General of Chinese Customs. London : Robert Ilardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. PROPOSED RAILWAYS TN LONDON AND TEN MILES ROUND. Preparing for Publication, • AMAP of PROPOSED RAILWAYS and MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS, deposaed at the Private Bill Office, Nov. 30, 1864, for Session 1865 ; a'so, the Railways in Operation, Constructing, and Sanctioned. Price, in sheet, 2s. 6d. ; mounted, in case, 4s. 6d. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W.; and all booksellers. PUNCH'S POCKET 1300 K 1865, Illustrated by JOHN TENNIEL and CHARLES KEENE, is now ready. Price 2s. 6d. PUNCH'S ALMANAC 1865, Illustrated by J. E. MILLAIS, ILA., JOAN TEN. NIEL, C. KEENE, F. WALKER, and G. DUMALIRIEK, will be published on the 20th inst. CITY S II 0 . 11 7 11 0 0 MS GLASS AND CHINA, 147, HOUNDSDITCIL J)EFRIES arid SONS' TABLE GLASS ; Cut and Engraved, of the choicest designs. R EFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT, and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. REFRIES and SONS' LUSTRF,S, TAZZAS and Flower Vases for the present season. DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, for the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver. REFRIES an d SONS' CHANDELIERS, in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. fIF RI E S and SONS' CHANDELIERS, in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for REFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS in Lamps for India. "RETRIES and SONS' WALL LIGHT x., Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered). REFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB, Mess, and General Furnishing Orders of China, Glass DEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS with Pattern Books and Special Designs. DEFRIES and SONS h ave j us t a dd e d Fi ve .2 • New Show-Rooms to their extensive Manufactory. , ey have now on show the largest assortment in the world the above goods of their bwn manufacture. MANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS, 147, Houndsditch. HAIR.CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, ls. Gd., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladies' Hair from 75. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss. The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d, or sent free for 51 stamps. It is most easy of use. HAIR DESTROYER. -248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 54 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps.—ALEX_ ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay )n Hair, id. PIMPLE REMOVE R.—All diseases of the akin arc improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &c. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. India. , . ,z 7 -- -,----2---z-------- ,-.." --2-- z'' - ~„........... ~.„ . _,„,„.,...,. .. , . . --.....\,,,,..,..__. r ... ~.,. f. f. , , .=', , k,' , it......: __ %131 • h e , ~.-.,..• . . -•el • ' I ' -4 - - 4-, ...: • •;' . ..1. - -,.&A , - .....e. a'.):e>t,,,, - • - ' .;T" -...•,* - - m 1:% -4 --: rt -.• OW 1 Abok ' 4 ., ,, : - k - I:kt .:,- - e..9k 4 , . . IV - /; __, 0 '... tir.. ' ' A *--.' -t' l ~, t -pa,-. I.—i -- 14 • -- A - - . - i --, z' ifr -~#, e...re , , , ,,-., -t,-, • --• ....,„-.-0••• '' t• - ••• . - -le ', 1 ( 4, . 4 1 .,. . , • '.21" ‘ 4 di: 'a...; , . " 4.. 0 , k,t,ff .. i.. - ~ , ~.._ t,i, , cw - ' e , - . t 7 l, 4.9• P... :4 :1 , tt ,-, d, ktii , c--.4 - J. , •• .-, . _ ..... . , „4„ _ . .....,. fi., -.„, ,•i,-. , 144 Zll -- lw,„ „, -iv Is r- . ... . \ ••" 1 ... - "X.. ti" --,,,"' ii.,-• . ~.__ ~,,,tl. cg Tr• .t, .... •Wi , ' . 1 .4., , *t r" .- -; ' C SC' . ' -Cs '..*'74 '- '4" DIE ' i' - ' 4 .....-e- ,' ' --...,( ' 4.. v,- - ' : ILO"! ,-,,,,- "tr....‘ 'DR IA , ki 1 12, 1864. IN AMERICA. rnrcr, ...... ...4d STAMPED .....fid were that the police and fire departments were wholly adequate to the extraordinary work so unexpectedly thrown upon them, nothing will satisfy the "loyal" men for whom the granule undertakas to speak but Butler and martial law to punish people for the crime of sym palhy, and to exercise " unrestrained power" with an acidity commensurate alike with its unrestraint and its enormity. New York has been so wholly engrossed with this new sensation as almost to have forgotten that Gen. Sherman, whom it is the present fashion to place above Grant and all the other Generals whom merit or favour has brought to the surface, is engaged in one of the most daring as well as most perilous move' meats that a General can make. The mystery that has attended his progress is removed. Foiled by General Hood, and unable to retain his hold upon Atlanta, he has made a virtue of necessity, and commenced a rapid march through the enemy's country, burning and destroying all before him, in hopes to reach the sea, either at Savannah or Charleston. or some such other point on the Geor gian or South Carolinian coast as circumstances may recommend, and whither a large Federal fleet may easily proceed to receive him with supplies and reinforcements. The march will be of 350 miles, if successfully accomplished ; and if he make a new base for himself on the sea-board, in exchange for his abandoned inland base at Chattanooga, he will have achieved a work that will entitle him to rank as the boldest, the ablest, and most fortunate commander whom the, war has produced. It would appear that the abandonment of the grand attack which was to have been made upon Wil mington, prior to the day of election, was oaused by the necessities of General Sherman—that, having made up his mind to retreat through Georgia, as his only chance of escape from annihilation or forced surrender, he communicated his plans to Wash ington, and requested the co-operation of Admiral Porter's fleet, to be within easy distance of such place or city on the coast as he might succeed in reaching. Sherman is now completely eat off from the North and from communication with his own Government, consequently the only news of his movements is derived from Southern sources. But, as the Southern journals have been requested or forbidden to give information through their columns that may be of advantage to the Northern Generals and Government, it is prebable that little or nothing will be heard of Sherman—until the North has to announce his triumph or the South his defeat. A levee en masse or landsturm of the Georgians has been ordered to impede his progress, to harass him in front,rear, and either flank,while General Beauree gard is preparing to contest his advance by more scientific and perhaps more successful means. General Thomas, whom he left behind either to guard Chattanooga, or to assume such other position as would most assuredly hold General Hood in check, has, it would appear, found himself out numbered—if not out-generalled—and will either have to give or accept battle for the possession of the city of Nashville and of Western Tennessee. Thus the whole interest of the war settles for the time in the armies of Sherman and Thomas; while Grant and Sheridan remain inactive—too much dependent upon the results else where to risk any independent movement of their own. I think I ventured a fortnight ago to predict that, come what might, the Confederate war ship Florida, piratically sized in the harbour of Bahia, would never be surrendered to the demands of Brazil, or any other Power ; and that if the Federal Governs ment were compelled to apologise to Brazil, and otherwise to make reparation and the amends hon. orable, means would be invented to render it im possible to give up the ship. Toe prediction has been verified. The agency I supposed was that of accidental fire. la this respect I was wrong. The Florida has been accidentally run into by a Federal transport, under heavy pressure of steam, and sunk in nine fathoms of water. The accident will impose upon no one. Whether it will tend to exalt the character of the American people or that of their Government in the estimation of the world is a matter in which the majority of the Americans will give themselves no concern. It is a " smart Yankee trick," and in a country where smartness ranks among the virtues the captain of the clumsy but effective transport which did the grateful miss chief will doubtless expect to share the applause which has already been bestowed upon Capt. Collins of the Wachusetts, and to be entertained at a public dinner by the solid men of Boston and the solider men of New York. There is but small likelihood ,hat he %id be disappointed. An elementary course of experiments was com menced last week in the factory department of Wool wich dockyard, with a view of testing the capacity of petroleum to supersede coal and other fuel on ship board, also in propelling steam machinery in the fac tories. The method adopted is totally distinct from that attempted some time ago in the United States of America, and is the patented invention of Mr C. J. Richardson, an engineer residing at Kensington. He has submitted his plans to the Lords of the Admiralty, and has obtained permission to carry out his suggestion for the benefit of her Majesty's service. The method is e ceedingly simple, and, as stated by Mr Richardson during the trials it origi nated mainly from some comments on the subject contained in an article which appeared in the limes on the 7th of April last. If the experiments should prove successful there is no doubt a recon struction of the navy will be the result, as an enor mous economy will be obtained both in the cost of fuel and in the saving of the immense space now occupied by the coal bunkers to be applied to other purposes. The plan under trial is simply to burn the petroleum through a porous material, which is placed in an iron chamber, dipped into a water vessel also of iron. The oil admitted into the chamber soddens the porous material, and rises by a sort of capillary attraction. The surface then catches fire and burns rapidly as long as the oil is supplied. The effect of the flame is so great that with the small apparatus, which is only two feet superficial, and affixed to a boiler, the oil on Satur day was utilised so as to be equal for steam pur poses to five tons of coals. A third advantage is ob tained by the employment of the petroleum,viz., that no stokers are needed, and the boilers can be supplied with several fires one above another. The small grate used in the experiments was placed under a boiler on 17-horse power, and in two hours it raised the steam to 101 b pressure. The only objection seems to be the fear of explosive qualities, but these Mr Richardson states he is prepared to guard against effectually. ABSURD PORTRAITS.—There are as much indivi duality and character in the human figure, as in the human face. Every one has some slight peculiarity of gee. ture and carriage of body, as he has idiosynoracy of mind. Assuming this to be so, with how much more character is a portrait in some accustomed position endowed than if re presented in one to which he was unaccustomed. A right rev. prelate, engaged in the manipulation of three little thimbles and a small pea, or a blind man looking through a stereoscope, would scarcely be in harmony; yet photographs are frequently perpetrated in which ladies and gentlemen aro represented in positions, and e ngaged in employments, e q ually as foreign to those in which their friends usually see them. The conventional p illar and curtain are becoming intolerable. The conven tional Smith or representative Jones, attired in his habit as he lives (say the guinea paletot and the 16s. trousers), seldom has the opportunity of resting his elbow on the base of a fluted column ; neither is he often interrupted in the study of his favourite author (one finger b e t w een the leaves of the book) seated in a lady's boudo i r , radiant with bouquets and toilet bottles, nor with a mass of unmeaning drapery mixed up with his hair, like the hood of an excited cobra. When two or more persons aro taken in one picture, it is no uncommon thing to see them standing without any connection whatever with each other, as isolated and independent as the statuettes on tho board of an Italian image-man; cr else, as if desir ous of emulating the silver bells and cockle-shells of per verse Mary, celebrated in the nursery ballad—all in a row. -r-piGhttes ".AU the I . (ar Amid." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DEC 1M 114NURNI I'URE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. Au immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYSIEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo t.dm•-able engravings of every description of Furniture and Leasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised stale : A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring househ )1d furniture, ?arpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Aiban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brita f.. CORBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Dept' ord bridge, London. S.E. BUSINESSES. -Mr. ANDREW HIND'S NO VEMBE It LIST, Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis. Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free. OFFICES—CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S. TEIGNM OUT H, Devon.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has received instructions to SELL a Gentle man's RESIDENCE, with grounds of about 3 acres. The house is pleasantly situate; contains dining, two drawing rooms, nine bed-rooms, three dressing-rooms, library, house keeper's room and offices, conservatory, garden, three-stall stable, two coach-houses, .tc. It stands on high ground, and the views from it are good. Distance from the sea about a mile. Price £2,6oo.—Particulars and cards to view at the City Central Estate Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.- MOLLARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry. Nothing. equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No. 1 for ordinary toilet purposes, and of Nos. 2 to 5 in all cases of cutaneous affections or rheumatism. Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatum for the hair. Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable odour. All these preparations may be had at the central depot, 221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Sanger and Son, Jozeaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and test monials tree on a' plication. Agent for Edinbargh—Mr. John 31`Kay, chemist, 119, George-street. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A.. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles. 105.63. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The City Bank Inquiry.—Examination of Mr. Alderman Mechi, This case, in which Joseph Wakefield Terry and Thos. Burch, the manager and secretary of the late Unity Bank, are charged with having knowingly prepared and published a false statement of the affairs of the Unity Bank, with in tent to deceive and defraud the members and shareholders of that bank, was on Saturday again resumed at the Man sion-house before the Lord Mayor. The defendants having surrendered to their bail, were accompanied by Detective Sergeants Moss and Webb, by whom they were apprehended. Mr Lewis, jun., again appeared to prosecute on the part of the Committee of Liquidators of the Unity Bank—Mr Sleigh, instructed by Mr Watson, of Cannon-street, ap peared for the defendant Terry—and Mr Metcalfe, in structed by Mr Wontner, can., appeared for Burch, Mr Humphreys appeared on the part of the directors who had been subrommed to give any information and assistance that might be required. The first witness called was Julius Lowenthal], who said ho was in no business at present, and lived at 15, Bishops gate-street, lle was a customer at the Unity Bank, and in the years 1860 and 1861 his drafts on that bank were returned dishonoured. In 1861 an arrangement was made between him and Mr, Terry with reference to those drafts. The amount of his liabilities to the bank at that time was from .0,000 to £7,000, which included contingent liabilities. The arrangement made was, that the amount of the dishonoured bills should be set aside, and that he should continuo to pay 10 per cent. on them, and that his bills should be renewed. llalf of the 10 per cent. was to go in reduction of the prin cipal, and any other bills that the bank discounted should pay the same rate, and be dealt with the same way. Ho told Terry if he was pressed he would be obliged to stop. lie was able to procure renewals from the acceptors, who were paid only for a short time. Mr Terry told him he must have the amounts represented merely for regularity sake, and that witness must draw on somebody else, and that the bills would be readily discounted, it did not matter who it was so that they had his name to them. 11e told Terry he did not know anyone who he could draw upon, but he would ask Mr Irons'cles, who was not in business at that time, and who might do so, as he was under obligatioji to him ; but he told Terry it was only to represent the amount, and for no other purpose. Nothing was said about Mr Iron sides' position. Mr Terry knew Ironsides' position. He and Mr Terry had had conversations in respect to it, and it was understood that Mr Ironsides was not to be considered liable. Ironsides at that time was worth nothing. He got Ironsides' acceptances for about 5,000, which represented the amount of his dishonoured bills, and these bills were sent to the bank; witness received back the old bills. He reduced his account by the 10 per cent. £l,OOO. When the Unity business went over to the London and Middlesex he had a discount account with the latter bank. They closed a year after, and he owed them about £4,000. ,It was not the same debt transferred. He believed after he began to discount at the London and Middlesex he reduced his debt to the Unity Bank about £5OO. He paid the money to Mr Terry. He had not yet paid any dividend. He was making a proposal of 8d and 9d in the pound. He had been bankrupt since October. The Unity Bank had received 3s in the pound before he was bankrupt. By Mr Sleigh—At the time he paid in the first bills he was in a genuine way of business, and the bills were bills he had himself received from his customers in the ordinary course of business. About £7,000 was remaining, and of that £5,000, or abut, was paid. If he had been pressed at that time he must have immediately stopped, and he could not have made any better arrangement for the bank. He thought it was better for the bank that he should go on instead of stopping. The dividends paid by the acceptors, together with his dividend, amounted to more than £1,700. The dividend of 3s amounted to £7OO. By Mr Lewis—The 33 in the pound was paid to the liqudators. He considered the bank had received more by the arrangement than if he had stopped. The Unity liqui dators did not make him bankrupt, Mr Alderman Mechi was then called into the witness box, and said his name was John Joseph Mechi. In the year 1856 he was the chairman of the Unity Bank. He was governor, and the name was changed to chairman. The first two years he received £5OO a year as governor. Ho never received anything as governor while he was direc;,or. Ho thought he received something as director since that time, but he could not say positively. The two defendants were engaged from the commencement of the bank. Birch was, he thought, cashier. Mr G. Chambers was at that time manager to the bank. Testimonials of the very highest cha racter were received, and from the first the feeling of the board towards the defendants was one of great confidence. Mr Terry had been 17 years in Jones Loyd's. and Burch for 12 years in the London and Westminster. Mr Chambers retired in August, 1857. Mr Alderman Mechi recommended Terry to the directors as manager, because he thought he was a proper man and he had great faith in his abilities, and ho was appointed manager. The bank had at that time sustained heavy losses, which were known to the directors, and caused them to part with Mr Chambers as an unsuccessful manager. Mr Chambers had been 28 years with Barnett, Hoare, and Co. At that time the bank certainly could not pay 20a and return the whole of the capital, because it was lost, which the shareholders were perfectly aware of. When it was found that losses were made that the directors were not aware of a meeting was called to investigate the affairs, and the result was the displacement of Mr Chambers as an inefficient manager. The bank could pay its deposits, and was solvent as re garded its depositors. Mr Lewis—And was it solvent as regarded its proprie tors ? Mr Alderman Mechi said he considered that if the bank could pay the depositors it was solvent. Mr Lewis asked whether he ever knew a bank that did not pay its depositors. Mr Alderman Mechi said he know several; the Royal British did not. When Mr Terry was appointed there were rules made for the management of the bank, and entered in the minute book. In December, 1860, a sum of £38,000 was written off as totally lost, after taking counsel's opinion whether it could be properly done together with the opinion and consent of the shareholders. Nothing was ever concealed from or misrepresented to the shareholders by the directors. The writing off of the sum was approved and confirmed at a general meeting, and tho report of the meeting and what had been done was taken by a shorthand writer, and sent to all the shareholders, so that those not present might have an opportunity of seeing what had been done. The next balance sheet was on the 29th June, 1861, which showed a profit of £4,066 2o id, awl it ITO proposed to pay a diyidad of 12s 61 per share, and the balance to be carried over to the next half• year. Mr Lewis asked what means was taken to know that it was really made. Mr Alderman Meehi said it was the duly of the manager and secretary to make, as they were directed, a true valua tion of every asset without entering a misrepresentation, and :he directors believed that was done when that balance-sheet was presented. The directors instructed the defendants to lay before the auditors who were appointed by the share - holders the bills and accounts, and all they ought to see, and keep nothing back, and thought their orders were im plicitly obeyed. Mr Lewis—Did you take any means of obtaining the list of the past due bills and deLts to the bank ? Mr Alderman Mechi said there was a book containing the amount, but that was left entirely to the manager. The di rectors knew nothing of nine-tenths of the customers per sonally, and therefore had to trust entirely to the manager and secretary as to the means of the customers. The balance sheet was taken to the directors as a true transcript of the state of affairs. The regular acoouuts on various subjects were laid before the directors every week, but they had no books laid before them to test the truth of the balance-sheet It was the duty of the manager to see the accounts werecor.. rect. They took no other means to test the truth of the ba • lance-sheets beyond referring them to the auditors. The directors did not interfere with the books in making out the balance-sheet. _______ By the Lord Mayor—The Lalance-sheet was taken from the managOrtandlecretary w:thout making any inquiry, believing it to be correct. Mr Lewis—Between the balance-sheet of June, 1861, and t of June, 1862, did ycu believe the bank to have improved in condition ? _ • Mr Alderman Mcchi said he believed just what was stated in the balance-sheet and report. Tholelance-sheet of June, 1862, showed a profit of £3,215, lie thought that was a cor rect statement of the accounts, and had no idea at that time the bank was in difficulties. The balance-sheet was handed to the directors as it appeared in the minute book, which was the same as the one which was published, and having full confidence in the defendants, no stars whatever were taken to ascertain its authenticity. The only balance-sheet ho saw was a copy of the one circulated among the share holders. The manuscript Balance-sheet in Lurch's hand writing was the one produced to him. Mr Lewis produced another balance , sheet in manuscript, which had been before produced, and which contained the items which were contained in the gross in the one in cir. culation. Mr Alderman Mechi said that was also in Burch's writing, but he had never seen it before. At the time the balance-sheet was presented he had no knowledge that it was not accurate. The direction to the defendants was imperative to give a true statement. He had at that time no knowledge of the state of the bank as it has since been discovered. That was the last balance-sheet which was presented. The bank shortly after amalgamated. He did not know the real state of affairs until about 12 months after. Mr Alderman Mechi volunteered the statement that he held 535 shares, which was more than one• sixth of the capital. All his brother directors were very large holders, and his loss was excessively heavy. A great portion of those shares were purchased by him for the benefit of the bank at a criti cal period of its existence. At the time of the failure of the Royal British Bank there was a run on the Unity. He bought his shares at the price they were worth by the books to give the shareholders confidence. He stated that he took a loan from the bank to purchase the shares, and gave ample sem. rity, in addition to all the shares, and told the shareholders at the next meeting all the circumstances, and received the thanks of the directors, At that time he little knew what the bank would coma to. He had lost £lB,OOO by the bank. In answer to Mr Lewis, Mr Alderman Mechi said he never was aware that Terry had given Bunyard a discharge of his debt. in Dec., 1861. On the 81st Dec., 1861, he vas present at a board meeting. There was no entry in the minute book on that date of a loan to Bunyard. He was present and signed the minutes, and he did not on that day sanction a loan to Bunyard. There were two loans granted on that day. He could not recollect what the custom was with regard to a renewal of a loan. He thought if it were the renewal of a loan it ought to have been placed before them. Bunyard's account was onewhich he had cautioned Mr Terry continually about, and he was always assured there was ample security. Upon referring to the books Mr Alderman Mechi said if it had been a renewal of a loan it ought to have been brought before the directors. He had knowledge of the assignment of Jabez 11. Wood, or of the assignment and release of Perle for £5OO. Perle's was an account upon which they had cautioned the defendant Terry, as it was an account which, with Bunyard and Lowenthal!, was a source of anxiety; and Terry continually assured them they were good accounts, and with regard to Per le, Terry assured him he was a good customer. He would say, how ever, in justice to Mr Terry. that ho had told him that l'erle's stock had been sold off at a great sacrifice, and he had become bankrupt, and he thought he would pay 12s Gd in the pound. The Lord Mayor asked how much had been paid. Mr Alderman Mechi said he thought Is, By Mr Lewis—Lowenthall's was another account which caused the bank much anxiety, and upon which the directors continually cautioned the defendants. He had no idea that Ironsides' acceptances had been substituted for other bills that were worthless. He had no knowledge that Ironsides' bills were struck out of the books to avoid presentation. The Lord Mayor (to Mr Alderman Mechi)—You appear to have found capital for your customers, instead of them supplying you. (Laughter.) Examination continued—Hall's account was also one upon which Terry was continually cautioned, and he spoke to Terry from time to time about these bills. Mr Lewis—Had you any knowledge that forged bills and bils that had been dishonoured years and years before formed portions of the items of £207,000, represented as the good assets of the bank ? Mr Alderman Mechi said he had not the slightest sus picion of such a thing. There was a book called the cash article book which ought to contain bills and cheques that were in transit, or were too late for clearing, and cheques that were in suspense for a few days. It was the duty of the secretary to read over the items each week to the direc tors at the board meeting. Mr Lewis drew the Alderman's attention to a cheque of Stevens for £1,095, which appeared daily in that book for 12 months. Mr Alderman Mechi said that item had not been read to the directors. It might have escaped the notice of the di rectors as a cheque, but not for a twelvemonth; it was against all the rules of the bank. The first time he saw the entry was when Mr Howell pointed it out to him. When he saw the item in the balance-sheet of £38,000 as cash in hand, he had no knowledge that it contained other than cash articles. He had no idea that it contained £16,000 eoo, thus made up of past due bills. He could never hare ima gined or suspected such a thing. An order to make a state ment o bad, and doubtful was given, but he d not nay to ts good, whom it Was given. He remembered such a book was prepared. Mr Alderman Meehi here observed that had he known the true state of affairs he should have wound up the bank or dismissed the manager before. In conc lusion of his evidence, th e a ld erman sa id th e bo o k pro duced was one that was prepared. It was from no authority from him that the debt of Bunyard did not appear in it in the list of debts, nor did he give any authority to omit the debt of Sterne or that of Lowenthall. They ought all to have been entered in the book. Debts of Harris and J. B. "Wood were also omitted without the authority of him or the other directors. He was present at a meeting of liquidators at which the resolution to prosecute the Aefendants was passed, and he and all the directors who were present re frained from voting. By Mr Sleigh—The directors gave it to be understood that they took no part in it. With regard to bad debts, he believed that Terry was really in some cases deceived. He believed, with regard to Bunyard's and some of the other debts, he had been deceived in the value of the security and had made an error of judgment. The directors knew of the existence of the debts, and When the business of the bank went over the directors believed the amounts were paid. They knew Perle had failed. He did not know at the time that Lowenthall and the others who had been mentioned had failed. The cash books and other books were laid on the table at the meetings. The loan book was al ways pro duced before the committee. A weekly report was made to the directors of the state of the bank. All the letters that came in and all that went out were examined. The making loans, the security to be taken, the discounting of the bills, were all discussed by the board. The bills for discount were brought before them. The past duo bills ought to have been brought before the board, but there were some that were not. If the past due bills had been brought be fore them they would not have continued to sanction the discount of fresh bills of the same persons. , The case was then again adjourned, and the defendants were again admitted to bail. A❑ important case was tried in the Court of Ex chequer on Friday. An attorney, named James, sued. the Oriental Financial Corporation for £lOO. under the following circumstances :—The prospectus of the company stated that the capital would be a million, divided into 20,000 shares of £5O each. Applicants for shares were to pay £1 per share in sending in their application, and £4 per share on allotment. Mr James applied for 100 shares, and deposited with the company's bankers £lOO. He had 65 shares allotted to him, making the balance due from him £225. He was advised of the allotment, and informed that if he did not pay the £225 by a certain day the £lOO he had deposited would be forfeited. He took no notice of this letter, nor of several others which followed. At last he was informed that the £lOO was forfeited. He then sued the company for the £lOO, contending that in the form of his application there was no stipulation as to forfeiture. At the suggestion of the judge yesterday the case went to the jury, who found a verdict for the company, thus declaring L that tie 610 V was forfeited, THE CI (From the Times' Correspondent.) When, nearly a month ago,Mr Soward announced o his astonished countrymen the existence of a plot concocted by Southern refugees in Canada to burn to the ground the principal cities of the North on the night of the Presidential election, the revelation was rceeived with a buret of deriiion. One-half of the public considered the Secretary either to be indis• erect in making such a statement, or foolishly cre dulous in believing it—while the other half, more complimentary to his savoir faire was of opinion t lilt he had either invented the report or given it au thoritative currency, as a pretext for the appoint. ment of General Butler to the military command of New York. It appears that on Friday rooms were taken in 16 of the New York hotels by 16 mysterious strangers, none of whom had more luggage than was contained in a small bag carried in the hand—that the 16 strangers, having obtained possession, piled the bedding on chairs and tables, placed a bottle of phosphorus, and in some cases of turpentine under neath, ignited a match, set fire to the clothes,which were previously saturated with the turpentine, or some other liquid; locked the doors, and then with drew, to be seen no more. Some of these persons are said to have been dressed in the uniform of offi• cers in the Federal army, the better to avoid sus• pinion, A very sin filar r part of the business is, that not one of these 10 aftemptiriiiii suceessfurrtliat the fire so kindled created much smoke, but no flame, and that it was in every instance extinguished with little or no damage, except that produced by water and breakage. The circumstances are certainly re markable, and now that the first alarm has begun to subside, the invention of the people has gone busily to work to account for them. Some believe, and these form by far the largest number, that the 10 conspirators, if there were so many, were Southern agents. Others contend that they were thieves, who intended to create such confusion, by the simultaneous outbreak of so many conflagrations, as to leave ampler scope for professional plunder than was ever enjoyed by the fraternity in any city of the world. A third section of observers—so cynical is the spirit of the time and people—assert that it was never intended to set fire to the city, or ,o the hotels ; that the beds and bedding were saturated with a solution of sulphate of soda, which rendered them nninflammable, though not income bustible ; that the object was to alarm the people for the safety of their lives and property, and to take advantage of the public terror to reinstate General Butler, as military Dictator, if not to " fire the Northern heart" to such a pitch of fury against the South as to render a conscription uns necessary. There are others, again, who know not what to believe, who have formed no theory to explain the mystery, but who, in default of any other object on which to vent their ill.will, fall foul of Mr Seward, and declare that his announce. ment first pat the idea into the heads of the con spirators, whoever they may have been, and that if it had not been for his over-zealous babbling, no such wicked act would have recommended itself to any ono out of Bedlam. But these latter critics do Mr Seward injustice. The idea did not originate with him, but in a Richmond newspaper, edited by John Mitchell, the Irish exile, which, before Mr Seward said a word upon the subject, openly advo cated the incendiarism of New York and Boston, in retaliation for the devastation of the Shenandoah Valley by General Sheridan. Several arrests of sus pected persons have been made, but as yet there seems, in spite of the mysteriously suggestive an nouncements of the police that they are on the right ,rack, to be little reason to believe that there is bet- ter foundation for these captures than the indiscreet expression of sympathy with the Southern cause on the part of the supposed culprits. It is urged by many, who do not believe that the Confederate Go. vcrnment would disgrace itself by employing its sol diers in the commission of acts so horrible, that the suggestion of the Richmond journal, in consequence of the additional publicity given to it by Mr Seward, may have fallen upon minds but too well prepared to receive it, and been readily caught at by natives or citizens of the Southern and Border States who have been drlven from their homes and reduced to poverty and desperation by the merciless tyranny of such men as Generals Payne, Burbridge, and M'Neil. Many of these have taken refuge, under assumed names, in the Northern cities. The Canadian from. tier, north of the Great Lakes and the St. Law rence, is filled with the exiles and victims of the war—men who make no secret of their wish to bring home to the Northern people in their own per. sons the miseries which they inflict upon the South ; men who are goaded into violence by a sense of wrong, who set little value upon their own lives, who think the end justifies the means, and who do not see why Northern women and children, who may be personally innocent of all blame for the war which their husbands and fathers are waging against the South, should not be made to suffer as much as the equally innocent women and children of the Southern and Border States. The 24 raiders who, under Lieutenant Bennett Young, of the Con federate Service, invaded Vermont and plundered the Banks of St. Albans, openly justified their reek% lessness before the courts of judicature at Montreal, and showed by their whole behaviour of what daring material the Southern armies aro composed. The same sort of men may have been engaged in the attempt to burn down this city, and may attempt the same flagitious mode of warfare in Boston, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, if the civil authorities do not exercise unusual caution ; but it is not likely that they were or will be employed by the Confederate Government, which has everything to lose in character and nothing to gain in mate. rial advantage by a resort to agencies so odious, for purposes so abominable. It is also contended by those who reject the idea that the conspiracy was abetted by the Southern authorities that the burn ing of all the hotels in New York, or even of half the public and private buildings of the city, would have inflicted little or no damage upon the Federal Government ; and that supposing a scheme of wholesale incendiarism to have been for the interest of the South, the public arsenals, the bonded ware• house, and the navy yards of Brooklyn or Wash ington would not only have been more easily fired than those private establishments, but that their loss would have been a far more serious calamity to the Northern people than the destruction of a city. But if there be one thing more than another that tends to direct suspicion from reckless and unauthorised Confederates, as well as from the professional plunderers of the city, and direct it towards the party which desires to find or make a pretext for declaring martial law in New York, it may be found in the indecent eagerness with which the Republican journals urge upon the Government the duty of re-appointing General Butler to com mand, not in obedience to, but in suppression of General Di!. "Does any one suppose," asks the Tribune of yesterday, that if General Butler had re. mained here these rebels would have remained ? Or does any one now fail to sea that Butler's presence for a time frustrated for a time this scheme, which on his departure these rebels at. tempted to carry through ? And although the attempt miscarried —though no real mischief rues done—though the ordinary police and fire agencies were more than sufficient to meet the emergency— the Tribune clamours for martial law. "The power of the police," it adds, "is limited ; that of martial law is unrestrained. In our judgment the activity of each ought to be commensurate with its power; and New York ought to be in the future not the easy refuge and unmolested home of traitor emi• grants from the South, or traitor sympathisers from the North, but ought to be secure as the home of loyalists and the metropolis of the country. It can be neither if the present state of things is suffered to continue." In other words, although the results of the attempted incendiarism—if the attempt were real, and not, as the Americans would say—bogus, E. -c7/ ~~ G~~!~~ 1 , 21 c -s R _'~ • :7;t1:074%,t. 7 - The 03i-ione at Diamlifiai . Ihe following are extracts from privergellaa.: g • " Masulipatane, Nov. 6. " I cau only write a short note to tell you to be thankful for us had Cur preservation. A moat awful calamity has happened to this place. On the night - of the Ist we had a most furious gale, with torrents of rain, which brought up the sea upon the place, though we aro three or four miles from it. In our compound it was Oft or 7ft deep, carrying every- . thing mov.kble before it. Our house is well raised, so little came in, but those who were lower had the water in according to their position; and Sou may fancy the condition of the poor natives and the Sepoys, who live in mud-walled huts on the ground. The Sepoys' houses were literally swept away, and about 200 men, women, and children perished. It was in the dead of night, which made it more awful. In the hrge native town the loss can hardly be calculated ; but people say 2,000. I hope that is exiggarated. The diftia, culty is to bury the dead, also the cattle, which are so numerous. We have lost a valuable horse and three of our find cows, all our turkeys, fowls, &c. Mau' of our outhouses fell down ; but I am thank. ful to say none of the servants who live there were killed, which has happened to many others. In. deed we have been mercifully dealt within compa rison with many, the:sea water:having ruined the whole of their property, their carriages broken by the falling in of coachhouses, Sae. The trouble now is to get good water, as of course the wells have been filled with sea water ; also to get provisions, We live almost upon rice, and that scarce ; no bread can be made at present,--flour spoiled and apparad tus-destroyed. Today is Sunday. I heard it just now with surprise, as I had lost all reckoning of days. " On the evening of the day after the night of the storm the rain began to abate. All but the Europeans, and some of these, too, and a few native servants were utterly prostrated. There were fears of want of food for the people and Sepoys, and of an outbreak in consequence ; fears of not being able to get away or open communication ; and fears of the awful stench which must ensue. From the morning of the 3d, 1 believe, no European who has not been ill, and few of the best natives have been idle from sunrise to sunset. In the Sepoys' lines or barracks alone about 300 bodies were buried; these parties were organised with Sepoys to press the natives to work, and for two days I was burying in charge of a party, like all others. Then the rice warehouses had to be opened and guarded by Sepoys under us, so as to supply the people and prevent looting. Then there was terrible fear of failure of water. At last one well was found for the whole town and cantonment. Now we are digging in all the high places, and I think sweet water may come soon. Yesterday I took a cask of water to the fort, which is two miles off, standing by itself ; about a quarter only of the population is left there. But, thank God, all of lei men, women, and children are well, and we aro all very hopeful. I am in hopes that sickness may keep off, and the sun is now bright, so that we can burn the bodies and drift in a few days." " Masulipatam, Nov. 4. On :the night of the Ist a most terrible cyclone blew here. At ten o'clock the cry of The sea is is 1 upon us!' took us out into the verandah, and the taste told us that this was true, with no hope of life. J— and T—, in whose house I was, saved two or three drowning servants on the steps of the verandah, though nearly blinded and blown away ourselves, and after feeling the sea water rise over the verandah into the house, retreated upstairs. This is one of the few storied houses here. There for five hours we sat, alternately fearing to be swept away by the sea or crushed under the falling roofs, we knew not which was our most terrible foe. Hav ing swept round the compass nearly, the wind abated a little, and, wet through, with 12 people besides ourselves, we slept from sheer fatigue. "By God's mercy we were more favoured than others, some of whom, ladies with children at home alone, sat on tables downstairs all night ; some with no light, some people standing up to their waists in water all night. Ntxt morning's light showed us not a tree standing—nothing but water to be seen on every side. We went and brought to our house one lady, three children, and her hose band, who had floated in the one room left in their house for some hours ; we waded through the can tonment up to waists and found no European life lost; but life was almost all that was left. In fear of the return of wind, or rain, or sea, we passed the day. "The native town is entirely washed away ; 5,000 natives at least have perished. Food for the living, to enable them to bury the dead, and so prevent cholera, is most needed. We are cut off from most places,—Your loving son, "F. B." THE BROTHERS DAVENPORT AT OXFORD.— RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS.—The Brothers Davenport visited Oxford on Thursday, Dec. S, and gave a private seance at the Town .hall and adjoining council chamber. The public entertainment was announced for seven o'clock in the evening, and notwithstanding the counter attrac tions of the Oxford University Ama ter r Musical Society, the hall was well filled with members of the -University— the undergraduate element vastly predominating, 1)r. Ferguson proceeded to explain the nature of the performance of the brothers, but from the moment he appeared on the platform a most determined opposi tion sot in against him from the " choice spirits" in the body of the hall, who kept up a perpetual disturb ance to the conclusion of the seance. Those who remember the reception given to " Barnum" and other impostors by the undergraduates, who have always appre ciated genuine talent, will no doubt think there was some thing more in their conduct than appeared on the surface, and from the animosity displayed to the lecturer when he informed them that certain conditions were necessary for the realisation of the phenomena, it was at once observable that the performance of the brothers was regarded by the students as a " false pretence." Dr Ferguson having at short intervals of quietude explained the conditions, called upon some of the audience to come forward and do the brothers, &c., and several gentlemen imme diately offered their services, and after a little delay Captain Owen, the chief constable of the county, and Mr Talboys, a gentleman commoner of New Inn Hall, were selected to represent the public. IVithout going minutely into the performance we may say that the brothers acquitted themselves most satisfactorily, and the most rigid scrutiny of the captain and his colleague failed to throw the slightest light on the mysterious cabinet. Dr. Ferguson was assailed with all sorts of remarks during the entertain ment, and his approach towards the cabinet was regarded with the gravest suspicion, and caused repeated cries of " Keep away, Ferguson.'' The suggestions of the audience to " open the doors of the cabinet," while the manipula tions of the cord were proceeding in the interior, seemed at one time likely to be realised ; but a feeling of honour prevented the undergraduates from ma ki ng such an attempt. After the success of the cord trick suggestions were made by the audience that Capt. Owen should do the brothers with tape or whipcord; but they remained unheeded. As the performance approached its termination the students became more unruly, breaking down the barriers which separated the room, and destroying the city scats in the most reckless manner in their desire to reach the platform, Having gained this end with the os tensible object of inspec tin g the cabinet, they commenced a series of "manifestations" of a character strange to the brothers (who looked on with feelings of surprise and fear), and the cabinet was in immediate danger of total destruc tion, as they commenced swaying it to and fro with a deter mination which at once implied wilful mischief. At this critical period the Junior Proctor, the Rev. Mr Harrison, of Oriel College, made his appearance on the scene, attended by three followers, and after some little difficulty, order was restored. During the melee one of the brothers exhibited his pluck by a short encounter with an undergra dute, which Was speedily checked. The appearance of the hall when empty, was one of devastation, and the spirited caterer for the Oxford public (Kr Thomas Hall) who en gaged them will regret, more then any one else, the un popular recreation awarded the Brothers Davenport at Ox ford. Later in the evening the brothers gave their dark seance at half a guinea, which was attended by about sixty persons. The proceedings were most orderly, and the re markable performances of the Brothers Davenport and Mr ' Fay gave the utmost satisfaction and created an immense amount of interest. Yesterday (Friday) the performances Were freely canvassed in the town, and the unanimous opinion was ono of wonder and admiration for their remark able talents. LADVEIITISE SI ENT.I —I io I Ioway ' S Ointment and Pills.— Rh euma tic Pains.—Many thousands of martyrs from rheumatism have found human life one long disease, and after consulting all the most eminent medical men in vain have ceased to hope for comfort on this side of the grave until some lucky accident has called their attention to Idol loway's pills and ointment. These are genuine remedies indeed ; persons bedridden for months with rheumatic pains and swellings, after the ointment has been well rubbed into the affected parts and the blood purified by the course of these pills, have found themselves restored in as incredibly short time to perfect health and ease. ~ iii